Potanichthys Xu et al. 2012 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Peltopleuriformes - Thoracopteridae

Full reference: G. H. Xu, L. J. Zhao, K. Q. Gao and F. X. Wu. 2012. A new stem-neopterygian fish from the Middle Triassic of China shows the earliest over-water gliding strategy of the vertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Parent taxon: Thoracopteridae according to C. C. Shen and G. Arratia 2022

See also Sun et al. 2015 and Xu et al. 2012

Sister taxa: Gigantopterus, Italopterus, Moradebrichthys, Thoracopterus

Subtaxa: none

Ecology:

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Potanichthys in the database

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